{"id":790220,"date":"2026-07-09T23:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T23:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/790220\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T23:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T23:51:13","slug":"two-men-arrested-after-overnight-shooting-incident-at-melbourne-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/790220\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men arrested after overnight shooting incident at Melbourne cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"

The owner of a Melbourne coffee shop targeted in a drive-by shooting overnight says he does not know why his cafe was attacked.<\/p>\n

Police arrested two men who allegedly fired shots into Andy’s Place in Melbourne’s inner north overnight.<\/p>\n

Victoria Police said officers on patrol saw multiple shots being fired into the cafe on Mount Alexander Road, Essendon North, in the early hours of the morning.<\/p>\n

Police remain at Andy’s Place cafe where a crime scene has been set up.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

The owner of Andy’s Place says he doesn’t know why his cafe was targeted overnight. (ABC News: Tara Whitchurch)<\/p>\n

A stolen Toyota Kluger was seen leaving the scene after the shooting about 2:45am.<\/p>\n

The police Air Wing followed the vehicle through Keilor and into Taylors Lakes, where the occupants fled the vehicle.<\/p>\n

\"Bullet<\/p>\n

Bullet holes could be seen in the window of the cafe on Friday morning. (ABC News: Kate Meade)<\/p>\n

They ran into a property on Old Calder Highway.<\/p>\n

Officers from the Critical Incident Response Team arrested an 18-year-old and a 20-year-old at the property.<\/p>\n

The pair will be interviewed by detectives.<\/p>\n

The owner of Andy’s Place, Raymond Yacoub, said he thought the cafe might have been targeted by mistake.<\/p>\n

“It’s terrible. A disaster,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I’ve never had any issues with customers or with anyone and suddenly out of the blue it happened.”\"A<\/p>\n

Victoria Police say the incident happened about 2:45am on Friday morning. (ABC News: Tara Whitchurch)<\/p>\n

A woman who works nearby said it was a troubling incident.<\/p>\n

“Well, it doesn’t make you feel very secure at work, does it?” she said.<\/p>\n

Police said the vehicle had been stolen in Macleod, in Melbourne’s north-east, on May 15.<\/p>\n

The investigation into the cafe shooting is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The owner of a Melbourne coffee shop targeted in a drive-by shooting overnight says he does not know…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[372502,45387,64,63,49013,352748,3028,44,1158,4905,188525],"class_list":["post-790220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-andys-place-cafe","tag-arrest","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cafe","tag-drive-by","tag-essendon","tag-news","tag-police","tag-shooting","tag-shots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}